Nataša Kandić
Nataša Kandić | |
|---|---|
Наташа Кандић | |
Kandić in 2015 | |
| Coordinator of the RECOM Reconciliation Network | |
| Assumed office 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Position created |
| 1st Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Center | |
| In office 1992–2012 | |
| Preceded by | Position created |
| Succeeded by | Sandra Orlović |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 December 1946 Kragujevac, PR Serbia, Yugoslavia |
| Residence | Belgrade |
| Education | University of Belgrade |
| Occupation | Human rights activist |
| Profession | Social scientist |
Nataša Kandić (Serbian Cyrillic: Наташа Кандић; born 16 December 1946) is a Serbian human rights activist and coordinator of the RECOM Reconciliation Network, founder and ex-executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), an organization campaigning for human rights and reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia, focusing on the Serbian role in the conflict. It was formed in 1992. The HLC's research was integral to the war crimes prosecutions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), particularly the "smoking gun" video linking Serbian military forces to the Srebrenica massacres. She has won numerous international awards for her human rights work (Amnesty International's Objective Observer Award, among others). She is a figure of controversy in Serbia where she was the subject of a defamation lawsuit by former President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolić.